Just a week into the new year, University of Texas at Austin president Jay Hartzell tendered his resignation, announcing that he’d accepted the same position at Southern Methodist University, a few hundred miles up the road in Dallas. It was the sort of move that one struggles to claim as “lateral.” UT is one of the largest public universities in the nation, with four and a half times as many students as SMU and an endowment nearly ten times as large as that of the private research university in Highland Park. In an interview with The Dallas Morning News, Hartzell explained how SMU’s recruiting process won him over. “They painted this idea of a university that is going places and has aspirations to be truly one…
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